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unusual facts about Defensive Line



Colston Weatherington

He played collegiately at the University of Central Missouri, and was most recently an offensive lineman–defensive lineman for the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League.

Darrell Shropshire

Darrell Shropshire (born March 18, 1983 in Kershaw, South Carolina) is an American arena football defensive lineman who currently plays for the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League.

George Seals

George Edward Seals (born October 2, 1942 in Higginsville, Missouri) is a former American football offensive and defensive lineman in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears, and the Kansas City Chiefs.


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2011 Italian Grand Prix

Schumacher was warned over the radio several times for blocking by team principal Ross Brawn; Schumacher was taking a defensive line going into the Ascari chicane before cutting back over to the racing line.

2011 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

Paul Randolph - Executive Associate Head Coach/Co-Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Line

Antoni Chruściel

Chruściel's regiment was secretly mobilised between 23 and 27 March 1939, and moved to the village of Szczerców where it formed a defensive line at the Widawka River.

Bar Lev Line

In his book The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East, historian Abraham Rabinovich posits that the Bar-Lev line was a blunder — too lightly manned to be an effective defensive line and too heavily manned to be an expendable tripwire.

Battle of Casaglia

After Murat was defeated at the Battle of Occhiobello, the Neapolitans stopped their advance and made a defensive line on the Po River.

Battle of Huaiyin–Huai'an

Chen Yi (communist) was forced to readjust his troop deployment again: the communist 5th Brigade and the 13th Brigade in central Jiangsu were ordered to Huaiyin to help the communist 9th Column to set up a defensive line along the southern bank of the Grand Canal of China, the communist forces attacking Hai’an (海安) abandoned their original plan and turned to Huaiyin to reinforce the threatened city.

Battle of Phuoc Long

The district of Phuoc Long and the military zones of Bố Đức, Đôn Luân, Đức Phong, the administrative centre of Phuoc Binh, and Bà Rá mountain lies at the centre of South Vietnam’s defensive line in III Corps, which served to defend Saigon and the populous southern provinces.

Central Westchester Parkway

The parkway segment cost $1 million (1932 USD) to construct and the ribbon was placed at the location of George Washington's first defensive line in 1776 during the Battle of White Plains.

Chicago Cardinals–Toronto Argonauts exhibition game

Four Argos were injured in the contest, including star centre Norm Stoneburgh and Don Caraway, an anchor on the defensive line.

David Bailiff

He returned to coaching in 1988 as a graduate assistant at Southwest Texas and was promoted the next year to a full-time position that he held until he was hired to coach the defensive line at the University of New Mexico by Lobos' head coach Dennis Franchione.

Dick Modzelewski

That position would last only one season after another wholesale coaching change, but he would resurface as defensive line coach with the Cincinnati Bengals in 1979 under head coach Homer Rice.

Dick Offenhamer

Dick Offenhamer’s program at U.B. produced several individuals who went on to distinguished professional careers, including Gerry Philbin, a member of the NY Jets 1968 Super Bowl champions, and Buddy Ryan who was on Offenhamer staff as the defensive line coach.

Drew Inzer

He currently serves as offensive and defensive line coach at Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Friedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin

On 25 April, his troops captured the Kemmelberg, although they were later forced to retreat to the Antwerp-Maas defensive line.

Geoffrey Barton

Buller's first objective was the Relief of Ladysmith, to which end he moved his army up from Cape Town via Pietermaritzburg to Frere, just south of the Tugela River, the north of which the Boers had placed their defensive line.

Harold Rawdon Briggs

Briggs's brigade took part in Eighth Army's advance to and through the Axis defensive line at Gazala, ending the year at Benghazi.

Jason Babin

This deal included guarantees in the $5–6 million range and reunited him with former Titans defensive line coach Jim Washburn.

John Scott, Jr.

Scott entered the coaching ranks in 2001 as a defensive line coach at West Davidson High School in Tyro, North Carolina.

In January 2013, Scott was hired as the defensive line coach for Texas Tech under head coach Kliff Kingsbury.

José Alejandrino

Alejandrino and his friend, General Antonio Luna, suggested to Aguinaldo that they build a defensive line from Novaliches to Caloocan to delay the northward advance of American troops intent on capturing the railway.

Josef Bürckel

On 8 September 1944, in a letter to Martin Bormann (with whom Bürckel didn't get along), Bürckel opined that the lack of combat-ready troops to occupy the defensive line of the Moselle from the boundary of Gau Westmark via the arsenal of Metz-Diedenhofen, south of Saint-Avold (part of the Maginot Line), to Sarralbe made construction of such defensive positions useless.

Kacy Rodgers

In 2008, Rodgers joined the Miami Dolphins as defensive line coach under first-year head coach Tony Sparano, replacing Travis Jones and Diron Reynolds from 2007.He would churn out three pro bowlers in Randy Starks DT, Paul Soliai DT and Cameron Wake DE while with the Dolphins.

Kelheim

There is an inner defensive line enclosing 60 ha near the confluence, then a long outer rampart enclosing an enormous area of 630 ha.

Leo-Hermann Reinhold

This delayed the allies from relieving the British at the Arnhem Bridge and provided sufficient time for the Germans to place a defensive line before the British which held them in Oosterbeek.

Line Defense

The Line Defense was a defensive line play formation, in American football strategy, that was applied to basketball.

Linienwall

It was part of a defensive line that followed the Austro-Hungarian border as delineated by the Danube, March, and Leitha rivers as well as by Lake Neusiedl.

Marcello Castellini

As Parma faced financial difficulty as their sponsor Parmalat was facing scandal, Matteo Ferrari and Castellini, one of the backbone of the defensive line, were turn to cash and washed out to decrease wage expense.

Mel Hein

Hein played prep football for the Burlington High School Tigers (now Burlington-Edison High School) in Burlington, Washington, where he played center and defensive line positions.

Purple Gang

Purple People Eaters, defensive line of the Minnesota Vikings from the late 1960s to the late 1970s

Randy Melvin

Melvin returned to the college ranks to coach the Temple Owls' defensive line for the 2009 season.

After a successful season at Temple which saw the Owls reach a bowl for the first time since 1979, Melvin rejoined Greg Schiano at Rutgers University for the 2010 season as defensive line coach.

Ray Callahan

Joe Walton then called upon Ray Callahan to lead up the defensive line "sack attack" consisting of Barry Bennett, Marty Lyons, Joe Klecko, Mark Gastineau, of the New York Jets for the next 7 years.

The Dreadnaught Factor

Each Dreadnaught approached the "Galactic Unstable Energy Field," which acted as a defensive line.

Toblerone line

The Toblerone line is a 10-km long defensive line made of dragon's teeth that was built during the second World War between Bassins and Prangins, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Vilalba dels Arcs

At the site known as Els Barrancs there are still almost intact trenches of the Spanish Republican line of defence, part of a long defensive line built between Vilalba dels Arcs and La Pobla de Massaluca.

William George Malone

By nightfall, Malone had established a new defensive line along the ridge although he was frustrated by the poor decisions by the commander of 2nd Battalion, Colonel George Braund.

Yuan Lin

After kindly making a tactical suggestion to new manager Philippe Troussier during a pre-season friendly, Yuan Lin was constantly dropped out of teamsheet possibly as an set-up example to establish youngsters refreshingly into the 1st team, despite the defensive line clearly needs an experienced commanding-veteran to stop the ball leaking through heavily.